Chapter 27 – Page 19

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He’s made contact with the players?
He’s brought a cultist into Sepiaworld?
He’s turned Ferris’s hand into a Powerglove and used that to control his own character in the game?

Actually, come to think of it, why hasn’t HR just created his own character and used that to communicate with the heroes? They’d think he was crazy at first, of course, but it shouldn’t be too hard for him to work up a miracle or two to prove himself, given what he’s done so far.

but didn’t he, sort of? I guess he didn’t make an avatar but he did make himself known several pages back. It was to that cult though, not the players we know and love. So…still not really helpful I guess.

But really, have we seen anyone in the other world behaving like someone controlled by someone else, or behaving like a character in a video game? Not one person running into a wall, no one yelling “BRB Bio”, nor mentioning a life away from the game. I get the impression that players aren’t really playing the game, they just think they are.

I tried out the “mask my email” thing from the “do no track me” app but it screwed up my gravatar and I guess the GA site registered it as a different account so that’ll explain the comment that has my nick but a different avatar once it goes through moderation.

Pffft, so wait, she can’t remember the name of Lord of the Rings, but she can easily remember its production history.
The first thing in my mind when she said “midgets in New Zealand” was some porno. Because it sounds like the title to one.

Don’t you remember what Shanna was like before she got tangled up with the group in “Fans!”? Total closet geek. Knowing that fact while pretending not to know the obvious fan detail is 100% in character.

To the point that I have to ask: Are the creators of “Fans!” at all involved in / consulted about the writing of Shanna?

That’s a possibility, but the only reason for Carol to fake a breakdown is to either murder Shanna or trap her in a tube. I think Carol could be capable of murdering someone, but not as Plan A, so to speak. Trapping her in a tube would, I think, take more time to plan than Carol was shown having.

There’s no such thing as majick? Well, what about time travel, alien monsters, etc?
This confirms it for me: this Shanna is based on the Shanna of FAANS, but the two are not the same.
Kinda like evil psion Charlotte in the last chapter of FAANS was based on (but not the same as) the Charlotte of Penny and Aggie.

In most RPGs, magic works out to be rational, and more or less just a domain of science and technology: maybe it’s got some strange aspects to it, but it has clear rules which can be understood, so that you can have player characters that can use it reliably.

By contrast, a lot of speculative fiction, especially set in what appears to be the real world, tends to portray magic as fundamentally irrational.

In other words, the magic Emerl uses isn’t going to be much like the “magick” that HR tries to use.

Then agin, it might be pretty much zackly like what Emerl does. I cant believe how many sepia panels we are getting. Speaking for myself I am grateful. Suspense is killin me. I am on the edge of my seat. Meanwhile back at the ranch.

“You said you needed me for something?”
“Yes. I’ve only been able to use the screens to watch the world we created, but today I think I managed to use them to view a different world. But with the nature of the spell, it’s possible that it’s just wishful thinking – that I’m just seeing what I want to see. Could you look at screen five and tell me what you see?”
“It’s…”
“Yes?”
“It’s a Starbuohmygod”
“Thank you, Carol. You have been most helpful.”

Mmm… Well this is rather odd. The cell message could be: her lof of HR texting her… So she’s sad over ‘betrayal’. But it could also be her message to HIM. Right now. Plus that cold determined look in the eyes in the last frame so different from the weepy eyes earlier. Odd. Im going to say Shanna thinks Carol is likely crazy now. Possibly Carol trying to lure her to the basement? Seems too obvious to fall for… On a random note. Elf, dwarf, berseker, and Frigg. Where is the player of the Elf again? Did he reroll that orc drummer? Feel like I am missing something other than names.

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